According to the Gate News bot announcement on July 1, 2025, Gate will launch the Move ecosystem project Echo (ECHO) Token and initiate the HODLer Airdrop event. The total amount of the airdrop is 1,000,000 ECHO, and participating users must hold at least 1 GT. The Echo protocol is a Bitcoin staking and liquidity infrastructure based on Move, providing re-staking solutions for BTC L2/LRT asset holders and institutions, while offering income opportunities from BTC ecosystem assets for individual users. The total supply of the project token is 1 billion, issued on the Aptos chain. According to reports, the ECHO/USDT trading pair will open for trading on July 2, 2025, at 20:00:00 1928374656574839201 UTC+8, and the airdrop activity will end on the same day at 18:00:00 1928374656574839201 UTC+8. Users can participate in the airdrop distribution based on their GT holdings proportion, with a limit of 1000 GT per user.

According to DefiLlama data, the TVL of Ethereum liquidity staking protocols is currently $10.338 billion, with the top five protocols being ether.fi ($6.782 billion), Kelp ($1.343 billion), Renzo ($753 million), Mantle Restaking ($515 million), and Mellow LRT ($327 million). Over the past 7 days, the TVL performance of these protocols varied.

According to Jinse Finance, the TVL of the Ethereum liquidity re-staking protocol is currently $6.543 billion, with the top five protocols being ether.fi, Kelp, Renzo, Mantle Restaking, and Mellow LRT, each corresponding to different TVLs and 7-day rise and fall.

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The mETH protocol of Ethereum Liquiditystake and re-stake platform has launched Liquidity re-stake Token cmETH and governance Token COOK, which help guide future product initiatives and promote protocol Decentralization. The total supply of COOK is 5 billion, with 60% allocated to the community, 30% to the Mantle treasury, 10% to the core contributors of the protocol, and the rest will be allocated to ecosystem initiatives.

On October 25th, Solana announced the release of the first Open Source Solana LRT codebase by stake protocol Solayer. It includes a complete set of deployable and ready-to-use Rust programs, as well as end-to-end Typescript, providing developers with a variety of free Open Source templates to implement applications.

ether.fi will launch the staking rewards on October 15th. Holders of weETH or eETH can receive stake, re-stake, and Season 4 rewards; eETH holders will receive the initial re-stake rewards in the form of LRT²Token, and the rewards will be distributed in a linear manner every Thursday.

Golden Finance reported that Staking Circle stated in a post on X that the BTC-LRT ecosystem is rising rapidly, with a market size of over 570 million U.S. dollars, not including 90 billion U.S. dollars of WBTC assets on the Ethereum chain. Among them, Lombard

ETHF protocol re-stakeprotocolether.fi has released the fourth season AirdropTemp Check proposal, with a maximum of 2 million ETHFI available for seasonal rewards. Loyalty points accumulate at a rate of 10,000 points per ETH per day, and LRT²protocol will reallocate and improve the efficiency of LRT rewards.

ether.fi proposes to launch new quarterly activities and provide multiple rewards to participating users, including ETHFI Token, partner Tokens, LRT² governance Token, etc. Among them, ETHFI distributes up to 2 million tokens each quarter. The new protocol LRT² is used to distribute LRT rewards and integrate multiple reward Tokens into a single Token.

PANews reported on August 27th that DWF Ventures stated on X platform: "We expect to see more competitors in the Solana LRT field in the coming months. At DWF Ventures, we have been constantly looking for innovative projects. If you are building in this field, please feel free to contact us at any time."

YieldNest launches the first Liquidity re-stake Token (LRT), allowing users to re-stake ETH already staked on multiple platforms to obtain various future rewards by holding ynLSDe.

Golden Finance reported that Renzo Protocol, a stake protocol, is collaborating with Jito Network on Solana to launch LRT Token ezSOL, the first of its kind on Solana, allowing users to mint ezSOL using jitoSOL as the underlying staked asset.

On July 4th, YieldNest, a protocol for liquidity restaking, announced the integration of PrimeStaked's liquidity restaked token (LRT) primeETH into its ynLSD product. To complement the merger of primeETH, YieldNest will launch new products, including the liquidity restaking solution ynLSDe on EigenLayer, and the restaking solution ynLSDs in the Symbiotic ecosystem.

Gold Finance reported that according to on-chain data analyst Yu Jinjian, Justin Sun's LRT PT tokens, which were purchased with 86,000 ETH in the past month, have expired and earned a profit of 984 ETH (3.32 million US dollars). The ETH-based return rate is